May I change my HDD on my Asus A6000VM ?

Hello everybody,

My notebook computer in an ASUS A6KM (A6000VM).
His original HDD was a :

- Hitachi TravelStar 80Go 4200RPM 5Volts 1.0Amp ATA/IDE
(model : HTS421280H9AT00)

And I would like to replace this HDD with :
- Fujitsu .........100 Go ????RPM 5Volts 0.55Amp ???/???
(model : MHU2100AT)
(brand new... so nothing on it even win XP.. shall I copy it befoir putting the restore CD of Asus ?)

May I do it without danger ?
Compatibility ? (even 0.55 A is not 1.00 A ?)
Note : connectic is the same (same plugs)

Thanks for advices in advance

Erick
http://www.erick.book.fr

 

Dooo it.... dooo it now ha ha, you shoud be fine, the amp rating is power consumption, the lower power rating is actually better as it will consume less energy.

Personally I have a Seagate 5400.3 160gb drive, it is fast and large and Dell are currently selling them for 170-190 incl del??? (I brought some for some friends last week that were visiting from the UK).

The main difference is make sure you get the right connection, PATA is most common, the connector that plugs into the HDD is a long bank of pins taht go from one side to the other, SATA is a newer and faster interface and the connector is two banks of pins (smaller in width than the pins on a PATA drive).

You would be good to go, just check out some reviews online, as Imentioned I favor the Seagate drives (my Seagate runs faster than my stock Fujitsu in my W3J) it is easy, just pop in the new drive, and place the windows or Asus recovery cd in the DVD drive than boot up tyour laptop, the on screen directions will guide you through the process.

Have Fun!!

 

Hello,

Yes, that HD (MHU2100AT - 4,200 RPM ATA) is compatible. But you most likely have to install Windows on the new HD and that is about it.

JC

 

if you want to make the process really easy get some tool that can 'un-hide' the hdden recovery partition on your hitachi drive. Create a partition of the same size on the new HDD. (1.62GB i think) Then Hide the partition again on the new drive. Then when you put your new HDD in, you can recover your machine by pressing F9 during bootup. (will only take about 4 minutes to do the recovery) beats waiting around for the CD's and drivers to load....


I did it with the use of a 2.5" USB 2.0 case and partition magic

Have done it to both notebooks in my sig


Insane

 

Basically, all the hard drive must pass through to be detected by the BIOS whatever what brand, speed and capacity. Once BIOS can recognize it, you can feel comfortable to install a Windows. Just pay more attention about assembling inside without and pin defective and right size position on the connection.
Cheers